TALLAHASSEE, FL (April 11, 2012) – One of the most anticipated seasons of ABC’s hit series, The Bachelorette, begins airing Monday, May 14. For the first time, the series was filmed outside the Los Angeles market. This season was filmed on the east coast near Bachelorette Emily Maynard’s home in Charlotte, NC. The show selected a luxury home in the area that contains all the touches and amenities associated with luxury living.

Viewers can now get a sneak peek both inside and outside the home from Homes & Land. While the home will be featured in the April Homes & Land of Union and Anson Counties Magazine, more extensive views are available online at www.FaceBook.com/HomesAndLand.

The 12,000 sq.ft. home is listed for sale by Mirium Peters of the real estate company of Peters and Associates. This downright dreamy estate is located in the Evermay gated community and sits on over five acres. With 5 bedrooms, 7 full bathrooms and 3 half baths, the 25 bachelors have plenty of room. This home was built in 2006 and has a Mecklenburg County tax value of approximately $5 million.

The European style house has a stucco and stone exterior with a four car garage, elevator and ballroom. The outdoor kitchen, pool and estate grounds provide plenty of room for the guys to relax between dates with Ms. Maynard.

Filming for the show wrapped up this week, so whether you want a sneak peek or may be interested in buying this $5.9 million estate you can take a behind the scenes tour at www.FaceBook.com/HomesAndLand.

About Homes & Land
For over 39 years, Homes & Land is the leader in providing quality real estate information to its readers through 40 million locally distributed magazines and its real estate website. Learn more at www.HomesandLand.com.

Tallahassee, FL (March 3, 2010) – If you want to know something about local real estate, ask a Realtor®. Homes & Land, a provider of real estate media and marketing for over 37 years, recently launched Market Pulse. In an effort to develop a clear view of each market, in February Homes & Land asked over one hundred thousand real estate agents to report their opinions about their local real estate market. The national, state, and county results are published in the Market Pulse Survey Report. Overall, optimism is improving with most agents reporting an increase in homebuyer interest. However, in states with the highest foreclosure rates, buying appears to be driven by distressed home sales.

When asked if President Obama’s Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) “has reduced the rate of foreclosures in your market,” only 10 percent of respondents said ‘yes’. Initial details about HAMP became available on March 4, 2009 with the promise of easing at-risk homeowners. The plan makes available $75 billion in funding for up to four million homeowners, providing a modified interest rate and three months of a probationary period.

“Foreclosures and short sales still appear to be driving home sales in several states,” says Eric Adair, Business Development Analyst for Homes & Land. “Unfortunately, the data on the program to date and the responses from our survey show that HAMP has done little to help. Clearly respondents to our survey don’t believe this program is helping to reduce foreclosures.”

When asked, “How would you describe consumer interest in purchasing a home in your area over the past three months,” 58 percent of agents in the U.S. said, “increasing.” Regional responses in states with the highest foreclosure rates showed interest even higher than the national average.

In the top three states with the highest foreclosure rates, real estate agents who responded are seeing increased homebuyer interest. Arizona (71%), California (64%) and Florida (67%) agents are seeing more interest, but the increase appears to be coming in the form of distressed home sales. Only 14% of agents reported that the majority (50% or more) of their sales over the last 12 months came from distressed properties. However, Arizona (38%), California (35%) and Florida (26%) agents each reported sales of distressed homes much higher than the national average.

“Almost 5800 Realtors® and agents across the U.S. participated in the Market Pulse survey,” says Adair. “We will continue ‘taking the pulse’ of as many local markets as we can throughout 2010 to better identify trends and regional market conditions.”

The Market Pulse Report, located at www.homesandland.com/marketpulse, provides insight on regional real estate trends and attitudes across the U.S. For more than 37 years, Realtors® have counted on Homes & Land to provide the most targeted distribution channels to reach active homebuyers. Log on 24-hours a day to find homes for sale, real estate listings, home valuations, and gain insight and perspective into the home sales market.

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.–Homes & Land, a leading real estate publisher, has rolled out a new application that enables consumers to receive property information on their mobile phones through Twitter. Home shoppers driving by a property for sale can text a listing’s property address or MLS # to Twitter and access price, bedrooms and baths. Consumers with smart phones can also access multiple property photos. The application returns data from listings found on HomesAndLand.com and Google Base. Homes & Land will also promote the Twitter application though its network of magazines, enabling readers to identify properties of interest in a magazine and text Twitter for more details.

“Homebuyers actively looking for real estate can almost immediately receive the information they need,” said Robert Wicker, Chief Marketing Officer for Homes & Land. “We are the first real estate publisher to offer this application.” Consumers can learn how to use the service by going to HomesAndLand.com and clicking the “Home Tweet Home” icon on the home page.

The Homes & Land brand is visible in more than 30,000 communities across North America. Its website – HomesAndLand.com – is the number one real estate search site for affluent buyers. According to leading web analyst Hitwise, more than 21 percent of visitors to HomesAndLand.com have household incomes of $150,000 or more.

Homes & Land is a category leader in real estate media. For more than 36 years, Realtors® have counted on the brand to reach active homebuyers and home sellers. In addition to its flagship publication, the company also publishes Home Guide magazine, Estates & Homes magazine and Rental Guide magazine. Homes & Land is also a leading resource for real estate information through its online portal, HomesAndLand.com.

Expanding further its network of alliances worldwide, 9th most-visited real estate website, Enormo today announces a partnership with leading US media company, Homes & Land. The publisher, which prints 50 million magazines annually, will advertise approximately 151,000 properties on Enormo. Its brokers and agents across the United States and Canada will now be connected to 4.5 million homeseekers and investors.

“We’re delighted to be Homes & Land’s selected international channel partner, and to offer its clients a range of advertising options to bring leads from new locations”, says Enormo’s Business Development Director, Dominique Cerri.

“Homes & Land covers many vacation and resort communities that are popular with international investors,” stated Robert Wicker, Homes & Land Chief Marketing Officer. “The partnership with Enormo gives added exposure to Homes & Land’s listings in those popular tourist areas.”

Enormo currently indexes 8.7 million for sale and rental properties in 80 countries worldwide, and is ranked 9th most-visited real estate site in the world by independent auditors comScore. The majority of the listings Homes & Land is advertising on Enormo are family homes, with a concentration on real estate in the southeast and southwest.

Enormo CEO Yannick Laclau adds, “Current conditions make the US an interesting market for our large, committed audience looking for cross-border buys. These types of partnership are, more and more, helping to drive global real estate back towards a positive place.”

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About Enormo
Enormo is the world’s largest international real estate website, displaying 8.7 million listings (sale and rent) in 80 countries. Enormo currently has user traffic of 4.5 million visits a month from potential homebuyers, tenants and investors worldwide.
For more information on Enormo’s features for users and agents, visit the online demo: http://www.slideshare.net/enormo

About Homes & Land
Homes & Land is a category leader in real estate media. For more than 36 years, Realtors have counted on the brand to reach active homebuyers and home sellers. In addition to its flagship publication, the company also publishes Home Guide magazine, Estates & Homes magazine and Rental Guide magazine. Homes & Land is a leading resource of real estate information through its online portal HomesAndLand.com. Log on 24-hours a day to gain insight and perspective into the home sales market.

Rosie Cade
Enormo Press Liaison
e: rosie.cade@enormo.com
t: +34 93 80 234 55
twitter: @rosiecade

Robert Wicker
Chief Marketing Officer
e: wickerr@homesandland.com
t: 850-575-0189

Tallahassee, FL (May 1, 2009) – Homes & Land, the affluent homebuyer’s marketplace, announced today it has signed a listing feed partnership with duPontREGISTRY.com.  The agreement provides that all real estate listings priced at $750,000 and above on HomesAndLand.com will automatically be uploaded to duPontREGISTRY.com.

This high-end site, duPontREGISTRY.com, is a destination for readers of the duPont REGISTRY magazine. Each month duPontREGISTRY.com reaches approximately 400 thousand unique visitors in over 140 countries.

“Our partnership with duPontREGISTRY.com exposes our luxury listings to affluent homebuyers and investors from around the world,” says Robert Wicker, Chief Marketing Officer. “The benefit to our advertisers is substantial because the duPontREGISTRY.com does a great job of targeting wealthy homebuyers. We will continue to pursue relationships that help our advertisers market their high-end listings.”

The Homes & Land brand is visible in more than 30,000 communities across North America.  Its website – HomesAndLand.com – is the number one real estate search site for affluent buyers. More than 67 percent of visitors to HomesAndLand.com have household incomes of $100,000 or more.*

The duPont REGISTRY adds to Homes & Land’s more than 20 partnerships.  Homes & Land also has partnerships with WallStreetJournal.com, New York Times, HomeGain, Truilia, and Yahoo! Real Estate.

Homes & Land is a category leader in real estate media.  For more than 37 years, Realtors have counted on the brand to reach active homebuyers and home sellers. In addition to its flagship publication, the company also publishes Home Guide magazine, Estates & Homes magazine and Rental Guide magazine.  Homes & Land is a leading resource of real estate information through its online portal HomesAndLand.com.  Log on 24-hours a day to gain insight and perspective into the home sales market.

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Homes & Land Affiliates, LLC v. Homes & Loans Magazine, LLC,
Robert Klezmer, William Keeler

Tallahassee, FL (February 27, 2009) – Homes & Land Affiliates, LLC successfully enforced its trademark rights to “Homes & Land” in a recent infringement case against “Homes & Loans Magazine.” Homes & Land asserted the use of the name “Homes & Loans” was confusingly similar to its registered trademarks. Over the last 36 years, Homes & Land has perfected real estate marketing through its high quality magazines and its website, HomesAndLand.com , offering “a total marketing solution” to real estate professionals throughout North America and Canada. Homes & Loans also published a magazine featuring home listings and mortgage lender advertisements throughout the United States.

United States District Court Judge John Antoon, II, Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division, ruled that the defendants William Keeler, Robert Klezmer and Homes & Loans Magazine, LLC infringed upon the rights of Homes & Land, placing great weight upon Homes & Land’s longstanding use of its trademark name. Homes & Land, with its corporate offices in Tallahassee, FL, has been using the trademark for over thirty-six (36) years. The Court entered an injunction against the Defendants prohibiting use of the name Homes & Loans.

“We are extremely happy with the outcome and Judge Antoon’s thoughtful and thorough opinion,” said Terry Smith, Legal Services Manager for Homes & Land. Adding, ”This was an important issue for us. Homes & Land Affiliates, LLC is committed to protecting our intellectual property rights. Our legal team did a great job of presenting our case and we couldn’t be happier with the result.”

Homes & Land was represented by Greg Allen of Jacksonville, FL and Brian Gilchrist, of Orlando, FL, both from the firm of Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

Homes & Land is a category leader in real estate media. For more than 35 years, Realtors® have counted on the brand to provide the most targeted distribution channel to reach active home buyers. In addition to its flagship publication, the company also publishes Home Guide magazine, Estates & Homes magazine and Rental Guide magazine. Homes & Land is a leading resource of real estate information through its online portal HomesAndLand.com . Log on 24-hours a day to gain insight and perspective into the home sales market.

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Working from home is now more popular than ever

Tallahassee, FL (June 18, 2008) – Homes & Land announced that it has been ranked thirty third in Entrepreneur magazine’s list of the top 99 home-based franchises. With the cost of gas rising and numerous corporate layoffs, owning and operating a home-based business is now more appealing than ever. Homes & Land is the leading real estate media and offers franchisees over 35 years of experience and quality products and services.
Homes & Land ranked in the number 136 in Entrepreneur magazine’s list of the top 500 franchises. Placing within the top 30 percent of Entrepreneur’s

Entrepreneur’s Franchise 500® is considered the world’s most comprehensive ranking of franchises. Entrepreneur magazine judges all companies, regardless of size, by the same criteria. The most important factors include financial strength and stability, as well as growth rate and the size of the system. The magazine also considers the number of years in business and length of time franchising, startup costs, litigation, percentage of terminations and whether the company provides financing. Financial data is audited by an independent CPA. The objective factors are plugged into Entrepreneur’s exclusive Franchise 500® formula, with each eligible company receiving a cumulative score. The 500 franchises with the highest cumulative scores become the Franchise 500®.

      Homes & Land is a category leader in real estate media.  For more than 35 years, Realtors® have counted on the brand to provide the most targeted distribution channel to reach active home buyers.  In addition to its flagship publication, the company also publishes Home Guide magazine, Estates & Homes magazine and Rental Guide magazine.  Homes & Land is a leading resource of real estate information through its online portal HomesAndLand.com.  Log on 24-hours a day to gain insight and perspective into the home sales market. 

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Home valuation tool gives home buyers and sellers estimates instantly at HomesAndLand.com
 
            Tallahassee, FL (June 5, 2008) – Homes & Land, the affluent home buyer’s resource, has relaunched HomesAndLand.com, adding more online offerings including a link that answers the question: ”What’s My Home Worth?” This new feature provides instant home valuation estimates to home sellers and buyers from Zillow.com, eppraisal.com, and HomeGain.com. In addition to the instant home valuation estimates, Trulia provides ZIP code level average sales prices for the user. Recent nearby sales are also provided, courtesy of OnBoard, LLC. 
 
            Homes & Land is one of the nation’s most visible brands in the real estate media market with over 60 million magazines published yearly and distributed in 30,000 local communities. 
 
            “Knowledge is key and technology has provided today’s home buyers and sellers with more ways to understand their home’s worth within a local area,” says Homes & Land Chief Executive Officer Pat Nadler.  “Imagine being able to simply type in a single address and call up price comparisons.  That is exactly what HomesAndLand.com’s ”What’s My Home Worth?” link offers, giving buyers information about a specific market, and sellers perspective into how other homes are priced in their area.”
 
            Homes & Land is powering the ”What’s My Home Worth?” home valuations mashup using API’s from Zillow, Trulia, HomeGain, eppraisal, OnBoard, and Google Maps.  In addition to home valuations, consumers can view information about schools, neighborhoods, communities, real estate for sale, and much more at HomesAndLand.com.
 
            “HomesAndLand.com has been updated with an enhanced web platform with features and content that home buyers and sellers seek out. Our ongoing mission is to provide all the real estate information consumers want in one location, including thousands of homes for sale across the country,” said Richard Ramsay, Chief Technology Officer.
 
             According to Google Analytics, the HomesAndLand.com website traffic grew more than 54 percent between January 2007 and January 2008. 
 
            “Maintaining this momentum of growth in our online consumer offering is critical to the success of the Homes & Land total marketing package,” says Chief Marketing Officer Rob Wicker.  “Realtors® who advertise with us count on our ability to bring active buyers to their listings.  With our new enhancements, buyers are just one-click from viewing listings using our HomesAndLand.com Search Assistant.  Ease of use and immediate access to home listings means better sales opportunities for our clients.”
 
     Homes & Land specializes in helping agents and home sellers reach an affluent audience. Through strategic partnerships, HomesAndLand.com has become the number one real estate search site for affluent buyers. More than 65 percent of visitors to HomesAndLand.com have household incomes of $100,000 or more.* 
 
      Homes & Land is a category leader in real estate media.  For more than 35 years, Realtors® have counted on the brand to provide the most targeted distribution channel to reach active home buyers.  In addition to its flagship publication, the company also publishes Home Guide magazine, Estates & Homes magazine and Rental Guide magazine.  Homes & Land is a leading resource of real estate information through its online portal HomesAndLand.com.  Log on 24-hours a day to gain insight and perspective into the home sales market. 
 
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*Hitwise online competitive intelligence report – April 2008

Local company marks more than three decades of selling homes

Tallahassee, FL (April 10, 2008) – Homes & Land, LLC has spent the past 35 years scripting the Great American Love Story – Homeownership.

“Our Realtor® clients witness first-hand the empowerment that comes with homeownership,” says Homes & Land CEO Patrick Nadler. “In 1973 when Homes & Land launched, there were 44 million owner occupied homes in the US. At the end of 2007, there were 75 million owner occupied homes.”

“Although we can’t take credit for nearly doubling the number of homes owned, we like to believe that over the last 35 years we have played our part,” said Nadler with a smile. Adding “we’re in the business of marketing homes to active buyers. It is what Homes & Land publishers do well.”

Homes & Land was one of the first publishing companies that focused exclusively on selling real estate. What began as a local venture in Tallahassee, Florida expanded throughout the Southeast and eventually throughout North America. In 1984, Homes & Land began to offer franchising opportunities and was named to The 220 Best Franchises to Buy just three years later. In January of this year, Homes & Land announced the franchise division grew 7.5 percent over 2006 to 340 publications. Homes & Land has become one of the nation’s most visible real estate brands by distributing magazines in more than 30,000 local communities and printing over 60 million magazines annually.

“Reaching buyers and sellers has changed significantly over the past three decades,” said Nadler. “What began as a printed publication distributed locally in high traffic areas has grown to include online capabilities where homebuyers have access to hundreds of thousands of listings across North America, twenty four hours a day.”

People are using the Internet to conduct their search for a home. The real estate Internet audience is 18 percent of the total Internet audience, according to ComScore Media Metrix. That represents 32,747 million unique visitors per month visiting real estate portals, and the online audience continues to grow. In 1995, a National Association of Realtors® (NAR) survey found that only 2 percent of buyers used the Internet to search for a home. A decade later that number had skyrocketed to 77 percent. While the Internet is a top resource, only 24 percent of buyers in 2005 found their home through the Internet; 36 percent first learned about the home they purchased from a real estate agent — human interaction still reigns supreme.

Interested in selling your home? Include photos and lots of them. According to researchers at the NAR, six or more photos linked to a listing online got 300 percent more views than properties with just one photo. In addition to engaging an agent, and posting lots of photos, home sellers and their agents need to market properties both in print and online. This ensures that a property is seen multiple times by potential homebuyers.

Homes & Land specializes in helping agents and home sellers reach an affluent audience. Through strategic partnerships, HomesAndLand.com has become the number one real estate search site for affluent buyers. More than 65 percent of visitors to HomesAndLand.com have household incomes of $100,000 or more. *

“Our mission is to sell homes for our advertisers and we take great care in attracting active buyers to our publications and our website,” says Nadler.

Homes & Land is a category leader in real estate media. For more than 35 years, Realtors have counted on the brand to provide the most targeted distribution channel to reach active home buyers. In addition to its flagship publication, the company also publishes Home Guide magazine, Estates & Homes magazine and Rental Guide magazine. Homes & Land is a leading resource of real estate information through its online portal HomesAndLand.com. Log on 24-hours a day to gain insight and perspective into the home sales market.
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*Hitwise online competitive intelligence report – February 2008

Homes & Land advertisers gain additional access to millions of buyers and sellers

Tallahassee, FL (March 18, 2008) – Homes & Land, the affluent home buyer’s marketplace, announced today it has signed a listing feed partnership with Zillow.com. The agreement provides that all real estate listings on HomesAndLand.com will automatically be uploaded to Zillow.com. Zillow is ranked among the most visited real estate sites by comScore Media Matrix.

“Our partnership with Zillow expands our listing reach and provides even greater exposure for our Realtors and Real Estate Agents,” says Robert Wicker, Chief Marketing Officer. “Our mission continues to be building exceptional marketing programs for our advertisers. It is our goal to sell more homes than any other real estate brand.”

The Homes & Land brand is visible in more than 30,000 communities across North America. Its website – HomesAndLand.com – is the number one real estate search site for affluent buyers with more than 65 percent of visitors with household incomes of $100,000 or more. A substantial portion – 55 percent of visitors – notes household incomes of over $150,000.*

The Zillow partnership adds to Homes & Land Affiliates, LLC more than 20 partnerships. According to comScore Media Metrix, the Real Estate Internet Audience in December 2007’s grew 5 percent over the previous December to 32,747 million unique visitors, nearly 18 percent of the total Internet audience. Zillow.com ranks at the top real estate sites in terms of unique visitors. Homes & Land also has partnerships with HomeGain, Truilia, Yahoo Real Estate, and MSN Real Estate, all ranking among the top 10 real estate sites.

Zillow is best known for its “Zestimate,” which provides an estimate of a property’s value. In addition to Zestimate, HomesAndLand.com also includes home valuation estimates from Trulia, HomeGain and eppraisal.com on its comparison tool accessible on the home page link “What’s My Home Worth?”

“The addition of Zillow’s Zestimate allows potential home sellers to garner several reports from one source – HomesAndLand.com,” adds Wicker.

“The partnership with Home & Land is a natural fit because Zillow also has a very affluent user base with the average user having an annual household income of $90,000.  These people are using Zillow to find more information on the types of homes that Homes & Land advertisers have to offer.  Homes & Land has a very aggressive distribution plan, both online and offline, and we are excited to be a part of this strategy,” said Jorrit Van der Meulen, Vice President of Partner Relations.

  Homes & Land is a category leader in real estate media. For more than 35 years, Realtors have counted on the brand to provide the most targeted distribution channel to reach active homebuyers. In addition to its flagship publication, the company also publishes Home Guide magazine, Estates & Homes magazine and Rental Guide magazine. Homes & Land is a leading resource of real estate information through its online portal HomesAndLand.com. Log on 24-hours a day to gain insight and perspective into the home sales market. To learn more about franchising opportunities, contact Brian Crawford at crawfordb@homesandland.com or (850) 574-2111.
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*Hitwise online competitive intelligence report